If you’re like me you probably have many accounts online which require a user name and a password. The easy thing to do would be to use the same user name/password for all your login’s, but it is certainly not the best thing to do. Can you trust all the sites you are using ? Are the passwords encrypted ? So the most secure option is to use different user name/passwords for all your accounts. For the account you use daily you probably won’t have a problem remembering your login details, but what about that site you use once a month ? Time to keep a list of your passwords and user names.
KeePass is a lightweight, easy to use, open source password manager. It allows you to build an encrypted database with all your passwords and protect it with a master password or a key file.
http://keepass.info/index.html
** Valid until the 16th of March 2010 **
To receive your FREE digital audio download of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, read by Michael York, visit the site below.
Courtesy of Blackstone Audio.
http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/free_digital.html
File Size approximate 75 Mb
Open Music Archive is a collaborative project, initiated by artists Eileen Simpson & Ben White, to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. The archive is open for anyone to use and contribute to.
The Open Music Archive concerns itself with the public domain and creative works which are not owned by any one individual and are held in common by society as a whole.
Under copyright law, a music recording has two automatically assigned property rights: A musical composition has a property right and a recording has a separate and independent property right. These property rights are limited by term. In the UK, the term of copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is limited to the life of the author plus 70 years, while the term of copyright in a sound recording is limited to 50 years from the date of recording. The archive attempts to gather recordings and information about recordings whose proprietary interests have expired and make them accessible to a wider public.
http://www.openmusicarchive.org/
Hard disks Crash, Computers get stolen, Files Get Corrupted etc. That are the things happening daily if it has not happened to you count yourself lucky. But are you prepared for a disaster ? We have heard of many people who lost their entire collection of music or photo’s and who did not have an backup.
Simple Data Backup is a FREE, easy program to back up folders/files from one drive to another and have these folders/files automatically backed up on a regular basis. It can back up to a 2nd hard drive, network drive, flash drive, and even a CD/DVD if packet-writing software is installed. It can create identical folder/file structures on the backup device or can compress the data as a .ZIP or .7z file (LZMA compression). It can back up “in use” files (as long as you meet certain criteria), and it automatically handles the whole full/incremental backup thing that other programs make you deal with. Simple Data Backup is indeed simple – just pick the folders you want to be backed up and a few settings and you’re done
To be sure backup data to a network drive or a second hard drive, a backup on your crashed hard disk is not going to be helpful
http://www.ssesetup.com/sdb.html
Fotosizer is a freeware batch image resizer tool. It resizes your photos in just 3 easy steps – 1. Photo selection, 2. select resize settings, then 3. Start the resize!
Increasingly, sharing photos on the internet is becoming more and more popular. Photos, represented as JPEG files from digital cameras, taken at high resolutions are far too large to send over the Internet, with some photos ending up at 5 mega bytes. Uploading one photo to a photo sharing website is fine, but 10, 20, or even more, this can take forever, especially on a dial-up connection.
With Fotosizer, you can shrink JPEG image files, along with other supported formats, and dramatically reduce internet transfer times, enabling you to quickly and easily prepare your image collections to be published on the web.
Help unlock the photos from your digital camera. Use Fotosizer to batch resize your photos making it easier and faster to email to friends, upload to photo sharing websites or upload to websites that offer photo printing services.
Fotosizer lets you resize in 3 easy steps, allowing you to choose the photos you want to resize, the dimensions, and where you want to save the new photos.
Resize quickly and easily using a preset list of sizes including iPod, iPhone, and Sony PSP screen sizes
http://www.fotosizer.com/
